Category: Financial Expert

A quick visit to James Dondero’s website lists a plethora of charities that he gives generously to. A local businessman, Mr. Dondero not only excels in his field as the Co-Founder and President of Highland Capital Management, but he also impacts the local community with his charitable works. With over 30 years of experience in the credit and equity markets, James Dondero is a respected individual in the Dallas and wider Texas community. Visit his website at jamesdondero.com.

Getting his start over 30 years ago with J.P. Morgan as an analyst, Dondero has shown ambition and a drive for success throughout his many years in this field. When he started with J.P. Morgan, it must have been hard to imagine that he would be co-founding Highland Capital Management, a company which currently advises and manages $20 billion. Dondero’s resume prior to co-founding Highland Capital Management is impressive. Joining American Express in 1985 as a Corporate Bond Analysis, in under four years James Dondero was managing approximately $1 billion in fixed income funds. From there, he moved on to the position of Chief Investment Office of Protective Life’s GIV subsidiary. Again, he brought the touch of success and the company grew under his leadership.

One may wonder how Dondero has time for all the responsibilities he currently has in addition to the outside charitable works that he oversees. Not only is he the President of Highland Capital Management, he is also Chairman of the Board of NexBank, NexPoint, Cornerstone Healthcare, and CCS Medical. In addition to this, he also serves on the board of MGM. With these current roles, this is only scratching the surface of the various organizations Dondero is involved in.

Contributing to so many, James Dondero has left his impression on Dallas and the wider Texas community. His generosity to so many organizations has created an indelible impact on many lives, including those of Gold Star children who have lost a parent by contributing to the Snowball Express and other children through the Education is Freedom and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)non-profits. By contributing to charities such as these, Dondero’s impact is felt far beyond the local community and children across the nation have benefited from his generosity. Dondero shares the benefits of his success and drive with others, and it is this that marks him as a great man of the community. Read more about James Dondero on Bloomberg.com.

Daniel Mark Harrison is known as a prominent entrepreneur, media expert, and an author. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Daniel Mark Harrison CO. Ltd. Harrison has held the posts since the company was founded in October 2015. The company has workplaces which have active operations in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Harrison fully possesses and manages the company with a mission of developing his personal and family assets. The company currently has a massive reputation as a worldwide investment enterprise.

Harrison is also a managing partner of Monkey Capital, a Blockchain funding, and fin-tech capital. The company is a decentralized firm focused on investing in the Blockchain system and Space X Supply contracts. The Capital ventures largely on crypto and have emerged as the first ICO to vend the pre-ICO opportunities successfully.

Harrison has also contributed as a writer of CoinSpeaker for several years during which he has recorded various achievements. He has succeeded to raise readership to more than 450,000 monthly. He has also managed the editorial team and has assisted with the enhancement of the site in preparation for Google News syndication. Furthermore, he has broken several stories including The End of Coin Desk’s Proxy Index?, Altcoin Investors Pile into Shares After $1.025million VC Round, and The Top Bitcoin Brokerage Sees Margin Shorts up 10X in 24 hours.

Harrison was also a Chief Editor at Marx Rand. He was also a publisher at Marx Rand, a news publication whose mission is to explore independent mind concepts. During his tenure, the publication uncovered an FBI agent who was working as the head of Ku Klux Klan as an undercover. The publication also uncovered how Toyota Vehicle manufacturing company employs slave labor. It also uncovered the story behind the failure of the FDA and the US drug companies in their efforts to solve the growing numbers of Haitian cervical cancer.

He also worked at the Motley fool as a columnist for six years. There he was accredited with finding references relating to stock charges in the UK and the US markets that were meticulous. Harrison also led in the exposure of the anguishes in Nintendo.

Betsy DeVos, also known as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education. Before being elected, she and her husband, Dick DeVos, have been fighting for nearly three decades to help parents and children from low-income families to have access to better education for themselves. However, it all started with a big interest in education when she was just a child and her mother was a public school teacher. As she became a mother herself, the enthusiasm of education kept growing when she had to take her kids to school and realized the parents were doing everything to their power to give their children a safe environment, a place where they would learn, and still, most of the children did not had the opportunities of education they deserved. To start the history she has made throughout the years, she first got started by making a foundation that gave students a financial aid to low-income families, giving the chance to parents to decide where their children will study in the future. Then, she served for two national charities, Children First America and the American Education Reform Council, which both have the purpose or mission to distribute scholarships and vouchers to students who desire to choose the schools of their choice whether private, public or parochial. Visit Betsy’s profile page on facebook.com.

Her interest and dedication have led her to big opportunities and big changes for education in the United States. One of the many successful projects, this one named as The Great Lakes Education Project, an organization supporting public education of all Michigan students which its purpose is to gives the choice, quality and accountability to the student, it was very successful at the time and present. For fifth-teen years she worked as an in-school mentor for at-risk children in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Schools. As a successful leader she has empowered parents, working to support of new educational choices for students in 25 states and the District of Columbia. Furthermore, to her leadership in the education world, she has served as chairman in The Windquest Group, an enterprise and investment management firm. Also, she has served in national and local charitable and civic organizations such as; Kids Hope USA, ArtPrize, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mars Hill Bible Church and the Kendall College of Art and Design. However, her biggest success have been in Florida, through its tax-credit scholarship program. It has an ever-growing number, over 50,000 of students attending the school of their family’s choice. Louisiana and Indiana passed programs that, between the two of them, have the potential to serve nearly one million students every year. Read more articles at MLive about Betsy.

Now being elected by the President Donald J. Trump she will work to advance equal opportunities education to all students. Betsy DeVos believes neither the ZIP code nor household should be the principal determinant to decide the educational outcome of students.

George Soros had left the political scene after his 27 million dollars contribution in an attempt to defeat George Bush in 2004 bore no fruits. He quietly reemerged as one of the top funders of democrats in addition to serving as conservatives’ bogeyman. During the campaign period, Soros committed more than 25 million dollars as a way of boosting Hillary’s bid in addition to supporting other democrats. This is something that the federal election commission says that Soros was able to achieve through his fundraising operations. The amount was expected to increase and Soros was expected to give even more as the elections neared. Learn more about his profile at Forbes.com.

Soros is a Hungarian born American who lived in New York. He had been friends with Hillary Clinton for more than two and a half decades, which was one of the reasons he prepared to attend his first democratic convention despite his advanced age of 85 years. He wanted to see his friend accept the democratic presidential nomination. This was however not to be since Soros felt that he needed to watch his trade carefully now that he had resume active trading. There was a need for him to keep a close monitor on the European economy hence he had to cancel his trip the last minute.

However, sources close to Soros reported that he was now politically active than he had ever been in his entire life. Some claimed that this could be stemming from his support for his friend Hillary Clinton or he could be operating from a fear of Hillary’s rival who Soros believes was busy instilling fear in people thus replicating the work of ISIS. A remark from Soros political advisor revealed that the level of engagement in democratic support was exceptionally high during the year because of the active election period. He might have been a consistent supporter of numerous causes the party undertook, but the level of interest heightened with the elections nearing. His interest was high long before Trump became the other side’s nominee. This heightened interest was brought about by the fact that Soros identified with the issues that the other side was against. These are the very issues he supports and cared about for years hence he had to support a democratic candidate to deal with matters of immigration reforms, religious intolerance as well as criminal justice reforms. Know more about George Soros on CNBC.

Those in the Clintons side viewed Soros move to support Clinton financially as a positive win. In fact, George Soros was seen as one of the influencers that could trigger other rich people to support Hillary’s bid. There are three elite donors including Tom Steyer, Fred Eychaner and Don Sussman contributed significantly in a number of other democratic campaigns. However, none of these people had the influence that Soros has in the political arena. However, the effect of this cumulative mobilization of funds by the elite in the society was a major boost for the Hillary Clinton campaign. This gave her an edge over her competitors especially as far as the campaigns were concerned.

Businessman Todd Lubar places his focus, in way of assuring he is his best possible self. He is always encouraged to seek and make strides, in improvement, in way of personal growth and success. Todd has had a long-standing career in Real Estate. He is well-acquainted with running a business; and making it successful.

Todd spent his early life attending the Peddie Schools in New Jersey, and the Sidwell Friends School, in Washington D.C. Todd, then, graduated with a B.A. in Speech Communications, from Syracuse University, in 1995. He decided to become involved with real estate, as a loan originator, at the Crestar Mortgage Corporation. It was at the latter mortgage organization, Todd learned all the ins and outs of conventional mortgage banking. He learned, too, how important it is to network. Todd developed relationships with financial planning professionals, Realtors, Certified Public Accountants, and Insurance Representatives.

Todd discovered he enjoyed working in the field of real estate. He came on board at Legacy Financial Group. He had, during the interim period, acquired equity. The move to Legacy allowed Todd to further expand upon his lending options to his clientele. He was now able to broker loans and act as a Mortgage banker.

In 2002, Todd established Legendary Properties, LLC. The property rehab business was a bit different than that of the loan origination business, in that Lubar made a profit by purchasing, rehabbing and selling single family housing as well as multi-family types of constructions.

He then opened a subsidiary of First Magnus Corporation known as Charter Funding. The next move made it possible for Lubar to expand upon his business options. He established an affiliate of the rehabbing organization, naming it Legendary Financial LLC. The financial company was a commercial lender and was geared towards individuals and commercial enterprises, alike.

When the real estate market, took a turn on the downside, Lubar involved himself in the operations of a scrap metal recycling business; and commercial demolition business. When Lubar was involved in the preceding businesses, he received a contract from one of the most high-profiled general contractors in the nation.

Todd, as evidenced from the above profile, is quite experienced in the Mortgage industry. (He has worked as well as Senior V.P., at Priority Financial Services, LLC.)

During his off-time, Todd enjoys traveling. He is currently the President of TDL Global Ventures, LLC.